SARAH EMMA EXTON

Sources : Birth certificate; 1871 Census (Leadenham); Stanley Parish Registers; Shardlow Union Workhouse Birth Register; 1891 Census (Stanley & Shardlow Workhouse); 1901 Census (Stanley); Family knowledge

On 2nd August 1870 in the Union Workhouse, Sleaford, Lincs, Mary Jane EXTON gave birth to a daughter, Sarah Emma. The birth certificate does not name the father, but it is unlikely to have been her future husband Henry BLOOR, as it seems more likely that they met when they were both working in Dale Abbey, Derbyshire, the following year. On the 1871 census, Sarah is living with her grandparents at Leadenham, whilst her mother has taken up a post as a servant at Dale (where Henry Bloor was also working as servant to William Malin of 49 Carpenters Arms). Sarah later followed her mother to Stanley. Sarah Emma gave birth to an illegitimate daughter Annie EXTON in Shardlow Union Workhouse on 12/3/1889 (baptised 14/3/1889) and a second daughter, Rose, was born there on 29/8/1890 (baptised 30/8/1890). Both of these baptisms were done in the Workhouse, but Rose was baptised again in the schoolroom at Stanley on 23/6/1895 at the age of 5 years. On the 1891 census Sarah and Rose are still in the Workhouse, but Annie is living in Stanley with a family named HUGGINS, and is described as a "nurse child." Rose EXTON married Arthur Thomas WILLIAMS in London in 1914. They had two sons. Rose died in Brighton in 1947. Annie EXTON appears to have been adopted by the HUGGINS family (she is still with them on the 1901 census), but I do not know what later became of her.

Sarah Emma married Joseph WHITBY (widower) on 14/2/1893 (follow this link for their children)

Joseph died on 26/1/1904 and Sarah Emma remarried William Henry MARSON on 11/4/1909 (follow this link for their children)

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